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Sunday, July 21

Just heard from Guy Kewney - he was asking about Kyocera's forthcoming Java based PDA, which led me to reflect on the Sharp Zaurus. I own a Zaurus (picked it up at JavaOne) and actually quite like it - as a first-generation device I think they have hit a whole load of the targets, not least getting a good developer community off the ground. They do need to loop round and bring out a v2 very fast though, to fix all the second-order niggles it undoubtedly has. Right now the Zaurus sits in the lounge with a WiFi card in it as a remote control for the Audiotron.

My next true PDA will be a smart phone, but I've not seen one yet that quite fits the bill - compact, with a bluetooth headset, 3G data connectivity for always-on browsing, Java-based desktop and tri-band with data roaming.

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